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Case study - Queens Park Primary School - Empowering students through bike education

In 2024, Queens Park Primary School was awarded a Silver Connecting Schools Grant to support bike education. The school used the funding to self-deliver a bike education program.

Two primary school students with bikes on a school basketball court

Background

When the school first began with Your Move, it discovered that a lot of the student didn’t know how to ride a bike. The school identified cultural backgrounds and families moving to Australia as key factors, leading to many students not having bike riding skills, and in some cases, not owing a bike.

Project description

Through the Your Move program, Queens Park Primary School’s Your Move Champion became an accredited bike education teacher in 2024, with plans to self-deliver bike education lessons at school. Not every student had access to a bike, so the school applied for a Connecting Schools Grant to fund bike hire for these students.

The Silver Connecting Schools Grant was used to support:

• self-delivered bike education sessions on school grounds for Year 3 students

• bike hire (15 bicycles) for four riding lessons

• provision of safe and reliable helmets for all participating students.

Outcomes

• Increased participation: A noticeable spike in students riding to school on bike education days.

• Skill development: 18% of students who initially could not ride a bike were able to ride unassisted and brake correctly by the end of the program.

• Positive feedback: Both students and parents responded enthusiastically, highlighting the program’s value in building confidence and practical skills.


“The Connecting Schools Grant enabled us to provide all of our students with a safe bike and helmet that they could develop their bike riding skills and confidence on.” - Sam Goodhill, Your Move Champion


Learn more about the Connecting Schools Grant here.

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